RubyForge now hosts 1000 projects! It's come a long way since July 2003 when we started it up - we've gotten new hardware (thanks to InfoEther), we're serving 200K+ hits per day, hosting 220+ mailing lists, and getting busier all the time.
We've got some nifty stuff in the pipeline - Subversion support, automagic syncing with O'Reilly's CodeZoo, upgrading to GForge 4.5, better file mirroring, and lots more. So there's good times ahead.
Also, thanks to the folks hosting file and RubyGem mirrors who help make all this possible! Without those mirrors, RubyForge would be crawling under the bandwidth load.
Now, onwards to the next 1000 projects!
Very cool, Tom! Congratulations. You guys have done a tremendous job with RubyForge. The community wouldn't be nearly as successful without it.
Posted by: Jamis Buck | November 08, 2005 at 10:42 AM
Thanks for the kind words, Jamis!
Posted by: tomcopeland | November 08, 2005 at 10:46 AM
Thanks Tom for providing this great service to the community, and congrats!
Posted by: Gregory Brownb | November 08, 2005 at 11:19 AM
Thanks Gregory! Yup, everybody's happy with the way things are going; seems to be working out well. Props to the GForge folks for providing a good open source product for us to use, too!
Posted by: tomcopeland | November 08, 2005 at 02:33 PM
What an excellent milestone! I can't wait for subversion support, either. Thanks for all the hard work, Tom.
Posted by: Gavin Sinclair | November 10, 2005 at 02:48 AM
Yup, I've got to get back cracking on that... I've gotten kind of distracted with the mirroring stuff...
Posted by: tomcopeland | November 10, 2005 at 08:40 AM